Oh Mom, always so subtle about getting her family to the movies.
I dreamed I was at a gathering in a house I've never been.
Even though your family members were the focus of the dream, you were all at a new location... in someone else's territory.
It is bright and sunny outside.
Public contentment or acceptance, no danger apparent.
I'm at a counter in the great room /
kitchen,
Where provisions are served and prepared. Laid out to see and work with.
This hints of a board of trade office, embassy, Christian leader's conference, denomination administration, department of agriculture, energy conference ... somewhere that work, is done in preparation for provision. Not just talk.
when my parents arrive
Entities with a tight and positive relation to you. (Since you felt free to tell your parents the dream, I assume you are fond of them.) Entwined in a way that you all presume connectivity.
and enter through sliding glass
doors.
Transparent to the outside, connection to the public.These might be spokesmen, or just more visible people. You are positioned as a worker, and they are closer to PR.
My father makes his greetings but my mom, dressed in a Sherlock Holmes outfit,
(laughing again) Watchdog organizations, places like the UN, CDC and WHO that try to monitor problems around the world. Narcs, investigators, people who don't trust potential corruption within their companies. Denominational assignments to correct or investigate problems within a church.
What seems comical to us (or not) is how blatantly she approaches investigation. We notice the facade before we notice what she's doing. Is she really investigating, or only making the appearance? This might be as important as what she is aiming to find out.
is oblivious to people. She is scanning the crowd and getting more frustrated with every passing moment. She adjusts the bills on her Sherlock Holmes hat, as though she were adjusting an antenna. I get a faint sense she is 'scanning' for me (but I'm not sure).
That's probably true. If you get a sense of who you represent, if not yourself, then this might become clearer.
She is either scrutinizing your actions, or hoping to find something wrong. Not finding you in the room seems a little odd, since she is your mother.
I wonder if you got a flashback feeling of times you were in trouble at home... the cookie jar experiences where you were fairly innocent, but the authorities of the house were still planning on holding you accountable.
She hasn't seen me yet, and doesn't know I'm there.
In your mind, you are doing nothing wrong. You feel watched, suspect, and hunted down, but you don't have a clue why.
My father notices me right away. As our eyes meet, we can't help but smile as my mother adjusts her 'hat'.
The head can show authority and mindset, incubation of ideas. The hat covers and shelters the head, but also can be a showy representation of a role -- a crown, helmet, fruit basket, a Buckingham bear hat. She seems to be drawing attention to her authority in this role.
Think of news stories over the last few years, where mortgage companies were blamed, executives were scrutinized, airports were restructured and tied more closely with governments, Catholic priests were investigated, media preachers' expenses were publicized.
The biggest thing that strikes me, is the unusually blatant attempt made to look like [she] is looking for trouble.
